Natalie Ray

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Letter from Austin, Texas

As part of The Occidental’s COVID-19 coverage, we are running a series titled “Letters from” written by staff writers, editors and Occidental students. These...

I moderated Oxy Confessions and now it needs to die

It's Feb. 24, and Oxy Confessions just posted for the first time in a month. Obsessively checking for updates, speculating about the moderator's identity and anonymously complaining...

Addiction, aesthetics and other nicotine narratives

As she walked her cat down the Academic Quad on a leash one smoggy November afternoon, Drea del Bosque (sophomore) took a hit of...

“Men on Boats” makes a splash at Keck Theater

Stage lights slowly illuminated Keck Theater at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7, the opening night of the Occidental theater department's play "Men on Boats." Beneath...

Vidiots announces reopening in historic Eagle Rock theater

From its opening in 1985 by founders Patty Polinger and Cathy Tauber to its closing in 2017 in the face of rising costs, the bright teal...

My skincare addiction: How the internet enforces beauty standards

Last summer, I started breaking out. I don’t mean innocent little pimples, either. I mean some serious cystic nastiness that erupted on my face like a...

Trump’s redefinition of gender is rooted in politics, not science

In 1859, Charles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution. The guy was onto something, but his peers weren't. The theory quickly evolved, so to speak, into "social...

GoldLink? More like GoneLink: How we lost Springfest to FOMO

On the evening of Friday, April 13, one day before Occidental's annual Springfest concert, the student body received an email from Tamara Himmelstein, the assistant...